Juliet Marillier Quotes

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.

I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

I'm such a first-person writer.

Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator.

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.